Mark Eisner > Mark's Quotes

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Libraries, archives, and museums all find themselves at the intersection of materiality and the mystical. Perhaps this is why we’re so quiet when we enter them.”
― Jenn Shapland

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
― Audre Lorde

“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

“And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself”
― Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
― Anne Sexton

“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Haber nacido me ha estropeado la salud.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“Sólo me quedaba sentirlo. Escucharlo respirar, mirar su panza de ballena subir y bajar. Pero no más sonidos suyos para mí. Se nos acabaron las palabras. Eso es la muerte, pensé, un diálogo se rompe, se vuelve monólogo y nunca más es de a dos.”
― Arelis Uribe, Las heridas